Playback - Community Video in South London, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art

An event at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art - connecting the spirit of the current exhibition "Jef Cornelis: TV Works 1960s-80s" to the local area of the CCA, this screening event drew some connections between Cornelis’ direct and hands-on use of newly available portable video technology with the production of videos by activists and community groups based in and around South London in the 1970s and 80s. Using examples from Goldsmiths’ London Community Video Archive, Ed Webb Ingall traced the various uses of this new technology to document and effect social and political change.

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